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PORT HAWKESBURY – Joseph James Landry told police he intended and meant to kill Phillip Boudreau in the waters off Petit de Grat last year, but that wasn’t enough to convict him of second-degree murder.
On Saturday, a jury of Landry...Read More

Jamie MacKay doesn’t look like the type of fellow you should rob.
The large, bearded, tattooed man was wearing a skull and crossbones bandanna Sunday as he looked around his Havre Boucher, Antigonish County, business, Sacred Temple Tattoo...Read More

Steve Samson has two former schools that he doesn’t want.
“They’re not assets, they’re extreme liabilities,” said the warden for the Municipality of Richmond County.
After the Strait regional school board closed...Read More

Edgar Samson confirmed Thursday that he will rebuild the Arichat fish plant destroyed by fire in August.
“Right now, we’re just working with the insurance company and cleaning up the debris,” said the owner of Premium Seafoods...Read More

A former Cape Breton man accused of sexually abusing boys in the 1970s says two of his accusers should face perjury charges.
In April, the Supreme Court of Canada upheld a lower court ruling that quashed all of the charges against Ernest Fenwick...Read More

A barge carrying the equivalent of over 230 tractor-trailer loads of wood chips has raised the ire of woods contractors on private land in northern Nova Scotia.
The barge, which arrived this week at Nova Scotia Power’s recently opened Point...Read More

STELLARTON — Ted MacNaughton and Lindsay Allen aren’t apt to share helpful advice on much.
Except, that is, the best way to get to the Department of Natural Resources office in downtown Halifax.
As Natural Resources Minister Charlie...Read More